Speech At Urban Prep

A. Why do you want to give the Valedictory/Salutatory speech address?

Being recognized as the Valedictorian at Urban Prep is one of the highest achievements attainable at the school. With the significance of this speech, it becomes vital that the selection committee chooses a senior from the class of 2018 at Urban Prep Englewood that will deliver not only an effective Valedictory speech address, but an entertaining one as well. Establishing a well engaged audience is one of the most challenging aspects of most public speeches, and I believe that I am the perfect student for this position. Also, I feel as though that as being the first Urban Prep student to be admitted to the University of California, at Los Angeles (UCLA) it is only right that I am given the
This news was given with very little time for preparation, for my grandmother was moved in the very next day. This was a huge change for me; my grandmother was 82 years old at the time and with that, she needed a lot of attention from all members of the family. I decided to spend a lot of my time assisting my grandmother with any of her needs and in doing so, I lost time and focus of my schoolwork. I noticed a drop in my grades during my first semester of sophomore year in high school. I then decided that I needed to learn how to manage my time so that I could help out my family and still get my schoolwork done efficiently. I began to separate myself from my friends to give myself the highest chance of getting majority of my work done at school and not have to use my time at home to do it. That next semester I noticed that my grades had begun to rise to where I wanted them to be. Although this situation was very unexpected and caused my grades to slip below my standard, I was still able to recognize my mistake and figure out what I needed to do to fix